Here Are some fun facts

-For our digestive system to work as it needs we need to have a balance

diet, and do exercise every day.

-Every day the salivary glands, produce approximately 1.7 liters of saliva in the mouth.

-An adult's stomach can hold approximately 1 liter of food and drinks.

-The stomach is a sac-like structure surrounded by a muscular wall that provides elasticity.

-The stomach can expand to hold four times its normal volume.

-The large intestine is only approximately 5 feet long, shorter than the small intestine.

-The designation of "small" and "large" has to do with the width of the tube.

-The digestive system is like a chemical processing plant.

- The food stays in the small intestine from 1- 4 hours.

-The food stays at the colon for 10 hours or for several days.

-The whole digestive system is around 12 meters long.

-Enzymes + hydrochloric acid becomes gastric juice.

-In the saliva there are chemicals called enzymes.

-You need carbohydrates to make it into sugar, and then you burn energy.

-We eat about 1.5kg of food in a day.

-We eat about 500kg of food in a year

-67% of the food we eat stays on the stomach and the other 35% goes to the toilet by your digestive sistem